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by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television. I originally wrote this article for Excella.com on October 5, 2016. More and more, the development world is embracing Agile practices. As we learned in Part I of this series, the UX team must find a balance between gaining a complete understanding of the customer with bringing high impact … Continue reading UX for an Agile World (Part III)

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television. I originally wrote this article for Excella.com on September 13, 2016. More and more organizations are recognizing User Experience (UX) as a cornerstone of the products and services they deliver. Beyond being a hot buzzword, there is real science, methodology, and process behind the UX services … Continue reading UX for an Agile World (Part I)

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television. You can see my presentation on this topic at the UXDC 2015 conference. This is Part Two in a series that identifies opportunities for improving the experience when working with open data. In Part One we established that there are at least two primary opportunities. In this … Continue reading Don’t Let Bad UX Kill Your Open Data – Part 2

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television. You can see my presentation on this topic at the UXDC 2015 conference. Not much has been written about the user experience (UX) of working with open data. This is troublesome for those of use who work with open data everyday; we either provide a sub-optimal experience for our data customers or we suffer … Continue reading Don’t Let Bad UX Kill Your Open Data – Part 1

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television I originally posted this article on the AWAREForum.org on February 3, 2012. Who and What is SMEMChat If you work in the Emergency Management field and have an interest in social media, you may have run across SMEMChat (Social Media and Emergency Management Chat) on Twitter. Every Friday, from … Continue reading SMEMChat: Using Social Media to Navigate Emergencies

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television I originally posted this article on the AWAREForum.org on June 29, 2011. On June 17, 2011 the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) sponsored an event that brought together “crisis mappers” from the government, private sector, and from conflict zones around the world. The two-hour discussion revolved … Continue reading Ushahidi: From Crisis to Community

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television I originally posted this article on the AWAREForum.org on May 12, 2011. On May 5, 2011, I attended the Understanding the Power of Social Media as a Communications Tool in the Aftermath of Disasters hearing at the U.S. Senate. The hearing was divided into two parts: the first was … Continue reading Senate Hearing on Social Media in the Aftermath of Disasters

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television This article is Part 2 of the Social Media in the Government series. This is a reprint of an article I published May 18, 2010. Social Media has a evolved a little bit since then so don’t be surprised if some of the material is a little … Continue reading Social Media in the Government – Part 2

by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television This is a reprint of an article I published May 18, 2010. Social Media has a evolved a little bit since then so don't be surprised if some of the material is a little out of date. 😉 Social media means different things to different people. A … Continue reading Social Media in the Government – Part 1